| 26 Famous Quotes by Dorothy Parker
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“When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.”
Bankers and banks Quotes |
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“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”
Beauty Quotes |
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
Books Quotes |
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“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Cure Quotes |
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“I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
Fame Quotes |
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“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
Gratitude Quotes |
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“Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”
Idleness Quotes |
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“Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies”
Misfortune Quotes |
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“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
Shame Quotes |
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“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Rumania”
Songs Quotes |
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“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
Money Quotes |
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“I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”
The sexes Quotes |
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“Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.”
Girls Quotes |
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“Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.”
Glamour Quotes |
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“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
Lovers Quotes |
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“Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.”
Nobility Quotes |
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“I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.”
Ridicule Quotes |
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“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”
Tragedy Quotes |
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“Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.”
Tranquility Quotes |
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“His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
Voice Quotes |
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“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.”
Wail Quotes |
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“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Wit Quotes |
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“He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
Business Quotes |
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Dorothy Parker Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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